Subject: Re(2): Beige G3 - OF 2.4 - can it be done?
To: Donald Lee , <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@mipsys.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/11/2001 16:06:23
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001, Donald Lee <donlee_ppc@icompute.com> wrote:

>>That's because I base my docs on what people post here -- I have no direct
>>experience with any OF 2.0.x or 2.4 machines, only 1.0.5 and 3.  Various
>>people have claimed that OF 2.4 supports booting from HFS partitions, but
>>not floppies, so that's what I put in the docs.
>>
>>If it's wrong, please tell me.

Note that all Apple OFs are supposed to be able to boot an xcoff file
on an HFS floppy. It works, at least, on the OF 1.0.5 machines, the
result usually depends on the bogosity of OF floppy driver.

Ben.